Why Python style guide (PEP-8) says 4 space indents instead of 8 space??? 8 space indents ever ok??

[Peter Hansen]

Francis Avila wrote:
> 
> Given that 4 spaces is overwhelmingly dominant in Python code, shouldn't
> that behavior be changed, so that '\t'==' '*4?
> 
> Or perhaps python should have a heuristic, where the first first-level
> indent in the file which is indented entirely by spaces establishes the
> number of spaces that a tab character should be equivalent to.

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-Peter